Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Contents xi VOLUME IV POLICIES, PROCESSES AND INSTITUTIONS List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xiii Editorial introduction to Vol ...

xii Policies, Processes and Institutions 12 Use of Communication Media in Changing Rice Farmers’ Pest Management in the Mekong D ...

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations ACIAR Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research ACUNU American Council for th ...

xiv Policies, Processes and Institutions GST General Systems Theory HBP Hasdeo Bango Project HYV high-yielding variety I/O input ...

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xv REFLECT Regenerated Freiréan Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques RFSA Rapid F ...

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Editorial Introduction to Volume IV Jules Pretty Food Systems Overview: The Wider Policy Context By the early 21st century, seve ...

2 Policies, Processes and Institutions Several countries have given sub-regional support to agricultural sustainability, such as ...

Editorial Introduction to Volume IV 3 particularly on women. Also additional incomes arising from sales of produce may go direct ...

4 Policies, Processes and Institutions extension. At the same time, the environmental costs of transporting food are increasing, ...

Editorial Introduction to Volume IV 5 sustainability, must start with learning. What do we think we mean when we use terms like ...

6 Policies, Processes and Institutions the beginning of projects, which are then assumed to represent the same condi- tions for ...

Editorial Introduction to Volume IV 7 as well as for interactive analysis. In this chapter by Jules Pretty, the many ways that d ...

8 Policies, Processes and Institutions entirely in the course of applying it in practice, but as it generally lacks a formal ins ...

Editorial Introduction to Volume IV 9 rice farmers spray insecticides based on their perceptions of potential damage and losses ...

10 Policies, Processes and Institutions production, economic, environmental and social dimensions of farming and food systems. C ...

Editorial Introduction to Volume IV 11 be given. Rather, they show that some unintended negative consequences of heavy subsidies ...

12 Policies, Processes and Institutions rural infrastructure, research and extension services, and land and tenure reform. The p ...

Part I Ethics and Systems Thinking ...

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